50 follower special! Wings of Fire - Ship opinions and one-shots

Aukliff/Clifflet - A Royal Romance Part 1

Okay, I know that this ship isn't even canon. Auklet and Cliff never even meet in the books (as of book 13), but many people ship this. In Kinkajou's words, it's "somewhere between baby sloths and Anemone's crush on Tamarin on the adorableness scale." I honestly think it's more adorable than that.

The only way I can rate it though is by reading fanfictions (trust me I've read a lot) and looking at the two characters individually.

I think they would make a perfect pair. They're both young, royalty, and only have a mom. They could probably relate to things about them being royals, like if they didn't like being cooped up with their mom all the time, and start to understand each other. One theoretical obstacle in their friendship is probably their moms though.

Queen Coral most likely still holds a grudge against the Skywings because of the attack on the Summer Palace during the war. If she found out Auklet was friends with one, no less the Prince, she'd probably keep her on a closer leash forever. Queen Ruby would probably approve of their friendship but maybe keep him closer in order to protect him from Coral.

Now, let's get into the story, shall we?

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~Cliff's pov~

Cliff loved everything about being a royal and living in a palace.

Well... almost everything.

He loved playing with other Skywings in the wingery, and all the friends he got because of his royal status. His best friend was a dragonet named Plateau. Plateau was like a younger brother to Cliff, anf they might as well have been siblings. They met one day in the wingery after a couple of the "popular" Skywing girls kept bullying him. He was pretty good at defending himself, but Cliff just had to intervene. Ever since then, they were like inseparable brothers.

Cliff also loved his mother, Queen Ruby. He knew that Ruby wasn't who she really was. She was actually a dragon named Tourmaline, but Ex-queen Scarlet had her little sidekick put a spell on her so she wouldn't be a threat. But to Cliff, Ruby was his mom, no matter what.

He could go on and on about the perks of being a royal; always being respected, having a gigantic room he could just fly in and practice his singing, having all the time in the world with his mom.

But the one thing he hated--no, LOATHED...was the meetings.

"But MOOOOOMMMMMMYYYYYYYYYY!!" Cliff was two now, so he wasn't an eight-month baby anymore. But he still acted like on sometimes.

"Cliff," his mother soothed, "this meeting is important!"

"You say that ALL THE TIME!!!" Cliff whined. He continued to try and drag her back into the throne room.

"But this one is very important," she said, not losing her patients. Ruby was the kind of mom who wasn't pushed easily, but somehow managed to be so sweet to everyone. "Plus, you might make more friends there."

"You say that about ALL THE MEETINGS!" He waved his claws in the air. "All the dragons there are so old and boring! And I'd I mention OOOOOOOOOLD!?!?"

"This one is different," Ruby said. Cliff was about to say that she said that same phrase all the time, but then stopped when he realized she didn't. "It's a peace meeting between all the tribes."

"I thought we went to peace like more than a year ago?"

"We did." Ruby went into her "bedtime story" voice; one she used whenever she went into a long talk with Cliff and wanted him to be interested. It always worked. "But some of the dragons still hold grudges. The Dragonets of Destiny actually suggested we all have a meeting to settle grudges and respect our differences and realize our strengths and similarities."